I'm wearing a string of former irritations.
I will not cast them
To the swine.
 I don't wear them to look good for the public.
I like how they feel
On this skin of mine.
I wear these pears for me.

I wear these pearls to remind me
That my former irritations
Don't define
Who I am
Or where I'm going.
I have the power to re-define.
I wear these pearls for me.

Oh grain of sand
Stuck in the oysters craw
You begin as an irritation
But as natural as the law of nature
You become a pearl
I wear these pearls for me

I wear these pearls as a princess rotary,
A string of answered prayers,
A string of victories and resolutions,
A sign of future resolutions,
Irritations overcome,
I wear these pearls for me.

-jenn